1. ReStEP – Project overview Project info: Full project title: ReStEP – Regional Sustainable Energy Policy based on the Interactive Map of Sources Duration: 3 years - 2012 – 2014 Support: EC program LIFE+ Czech Ministry of Environment Co-financed by the beneficiaries

2. Project team: Coordinating beneficiary: ČZU (CULS) - Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Associated beneficiaries: VÚMOP, v.v.i. Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation CZ Biom, Czech Biomass Association ETRC, EcoTrend Research Centre, s.r.o. MŽP, Ministry of Environment

3. Reasoning of the project background (2011 situation in CZE) Absence of a tool for regional evaluation of RES potential and limits Non-systematic subsidies, non-systematic approach to RES use and approval of newly constructed facilities Results: Rapid development of wrongly assessed installations „Misuse“ of government subsidies – e. g. photovoltaics Regional imbalances between RES use – excess of unused potential vs. depleted RES – co-incineration of residual biomass

4. Main objective: Create and establish new comprehensive evaluation method for RES potential and limits Main outputs: Innovative software tool - IS RESTEP Certified methodology – Regional Sources Assessment Encyclopedia – the explanatory legend for IS RESTEP Dissemination – Increased awareness on the project results among stakeholders, improvement of public opinion towards RES Targeted groups: Public administration, municipalities Investors RES related NGO’s, Interested public

5. IS RESTEP: Novel idea of RES assessment based on the central information database gathering expert information sources covering all RES related fields Limits First generation biofuels requirements Nature conservation and Biodiversity Food safety Soil degradation risks Potential Primary agricultural production Agriculture residuals and organic wastes Timber wastes and top-wood Wind energy Solar energy Hydroelectric micro sources Biodegradable organic wastes Geothermal energy Current production and demands Existing RES technologies First generation biofuels requirements Greenhouse gases and emissions CHP and natural gas Inhabitants’ energy requirements Existing landfills SCR plants

6. Source: www.restep.cz/en

7. IS RESTEP outcomes: Data layers compiled in the user - friendly map system – a user is able to: – Interactively work with the map – Gather statistical data – Examine the RES potential and limits in his region – Model different scenarios of RES use including current demands (food sufficiency, requirements of the existing RES facilities, etc.) – Examine the actual and parametrized regional energy sufficiency (based on RES) – Quantify the amount of saved CO 2 emissions – Generate outcomes and reports

8. Localization Possibility to depict the implemented datalayers (potential, current sources)

9. Local characteristics General Territorial Energy consumption Environment /Pollution Current RES energy sources & facilities Current RES energy sufficiency

10. RES Layers selection With the opportunity to use default RES use scenarios

11. RES layers parametrization Supplemented by the legend explaining the possibilities of parametrization Warning messages in case of the inappropriate parametrization

12. Outcomes Defining current production of RES and user defined potential for different RES types (GJ) Calculating with current consumption (regarding biomass)

13. Detailed outcomes – emission/sufficiency Calculating savings regarding brown coal utilization, CO 2 production and money (CO 2 tax) for user - parametrized scenarios Shoving the increase of energy sufficiency in the chosen regions as the change in the ration of different energy sources participating on the hypothetical GJ produced in the region

14. Detailed outcomes – Nature protection Depicting the territories with limitations of RES USE (national legislation, international commitments, non- legislation limitations Distributed to the three groups  realization of plan is rejected  Realization is conditioned  No known limitations

15. Detailed outcomes – Pdf Report Printable report summarizing results from preceding steps serves as a source for decision-making activities

16. Utilization and further development of the IS RESTEP Preparation of land use and development strategies from the level of municipalities up to the whole region of the Czech Republic (currently) and cross-border regions (in case of further development) Ready to be applied in other European countries – partners for the transfer of know-how and co-financing needed Our future objective is the European system, which will also enable to compare different RES approaches in individual countries

17. Thank you for your attention Lukas Pacek pacek@af.czu.cz Jan Matějka jan.matejka@ecotrend.cz